ANGELES CITY – The police here has withdrawn charges of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide against the husband of actress Sunshine Dizon after two children of a Badjao grandmother, who was fatally hit by his speeding car here last Monday, agreed to an “amicable settlement.”
However, City information officer Deo Sambilay said that suspect John Timothy Tan of Guagua, Pampanga, was jailed at the city police’s Traffic Management and Enforcement Unit (TEU) at the city hall compound here from the time he surrendered himself to the police soon after the accident at 11 p.m. Monday up to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
TEU chief Senior Supt. Abel Lingat said Tan’s Ford Focus car hit victim Joara Alidane Jentan, 60, who was crossing the MacArthur highway in the Balibago tourist and commercial district here, despite the green traffic light for motorists.
Joara and members of her family, who belong to the Badjao cultural tribe based in Jolo, Sulu, came here apparently to beg during the Christmas holidays. The family has been staying in a makeshift home under a bridge in Hensonville Subdivision in Barangay Malabanias here.
Lingat said that the suspect talked to the victim’s children Ali Usman Jentan and Indang Kaligdane Jentan, both of legal age, and convinced them to agree to an amicable settlement of the case in lieu of the filing of criminal charges against him.
Sambilay said the affidavit of desistance, issued by the victim’s two children past noon last Tuesday, committed Tan to shoulder the funeral expenses for their mother. The affidavit referred to last Monday’s incident as merely accidental.
Apart from Tan’s covering the funeral expenses, the affidavit did not say whether the amicable settlement also involved any other monetary compensation for the victim’s family.
“We do not meddle anymore in such arrangements,” Lingat said.
While the affidavit of desistance was written in English which the Jentans seemed to be unfamiliar with, Sambilay said a barangay official from Malabanias assisted the victim’s children in the negotiations with Tan.
Sambilay cited witnesses as saying that Tan was in a convoy of cars when the accident happened and that the tailing car was occupied by his wife, actress Dizon.
However, Sambilay said that the actress never showed up at the police station, but that a woman, alleged to be the actress’ mother, was seen Tuesday at the police office where Tan was jailed. This seemed to disprove rumors in the entertainment media of a gap between Tan and his mother-in-law.
Tan and Dizon met in Pampanga in November last year and got married in civil rites last March 10, reports from the entertainment media said.
However, City information officer Deo Sambilay said that suspect John Timothy Tan of Guagua, Pampanga, was jailed at the city police’s Traffic Management and Enforcement Unit (TEU) at the city hall compound here from the time he surrendered himself to the police soon after the accident at 11 p.m. Monday up to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
TEU chief Senior Supt. Abel Lingat said Tan’s Ford Focus car hit victim Joara Alidane Jentan, 60, who was crossing the MacArthur highway in the Balibago tourist and commercial district here, despite the green traffic light for motorists.
Joara and members of her family, who belong to the Badjao cultural tribe based in Jolo, Sulu, came here apparently to beg during the Christmas holidays. The family has been staying in a makeshift home under a bridge in Hensonville Subdivision in Barangay Malabanias here.
Lingat said that the suspect talked to the victim’s children Ali Usman Jentan and Indang Kaligdane Jentan, both of legal age, and convinced them to agree to an amicable settlement of the case in lieu of the filing of criminal charges against him.
Sambilay said the affidavit of desistance, issued by the victim’s two children past noon last Tuesday, committed Tan to shoulder the funeral expenses for their mother. The affidavit referred to last Monday’s incident as merely accidental.
Apart from Tan’s covering the funeral expenses, the affidavit did not say whether the amicable settlement also involved any other monetary compensation for the victim’s family.
“We do not meddle anymore in such arrangements,” Lingat said.
While the affidavit of desistance was written in English which the Jentans seemed to be unfamiliar with, Sambilay said a barangay official from Malabanias assisted the victim’s children in the negotiations with Tan.
Sambilay cited witnesses as saying that Tan was in a convoy of cars when the accident happened and that the tailing car was occupied by his wife, actress Dizon.
However, Sambilay said that the actress never showed up at the police station, but that a woman, alleged to be the actress’ mother, was seen Tuesday at the police office where Tan was jailed. This seemed to disprove rumors in the entertainment media of a gap between Tan and his mother-in-law.
Tan and Dizon met in Pampanga in November last year and got married in civil rites last March 10, reports from the entertainment media said.
